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Books By Mark David Campbell
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Word Count: 87,000
Summary: GEAR BOX TRILOGY promor mp4 “You see, in drag, it doesn’t really matter what frock, shoes, or wig you wear—although clearly there is good taste and bad—what matters is how you use your instrument to sashay, prance, and dance around the stage to tell your story. For the true art of drag is illusion. And, especially for a machine, such as I, suspension of disbelief gives me the illusion of being truly alive.” When his backup dancers and only friends, Sunny Boy and Grease Spot, disappear, Fancy Larry, a superior AI machine, embarks on a mission to save them from the nefarious robo dealers in Reno and the dreaded Arena of Mayhem. During his quest, he comes upon a staff of guide robos left behind in a science museum, a colony of discarded children from a cloning experiment marooned on the plastic island, and an abandoned troop of sex and cleaning bots in an undersea military installation, all of whom desperately need his help. Fancy Larry must choose to either revel in the bright lights of Reno or come to the aid of those who were left behind.
Word Count: 87,000
Summary: From our beloved teddy bear to our cherished first car, we form deep emotional bonds with inanimate objects. Will AI machines inevitably develop the capacity to love us in return? In a post-apocalyptic world that survives on garbage left over from the Gawd Wars eight generations ago, Sunny Boy, a semi-organic machine initially made to emulate a thirteen-year-old, and later modified as an eighteen-year-old, longs to be loved. His quest to find a family takes him from a farm in Winnipeg to the far reaches of the known galaxy. When Sunny Boy becomes embroiled in an ancient battle between a collective intelligence and a parasitic alien crystal, the boundaries between organic and inorganic life are called into question.
Word Count: 87,000
Summary: When Loofah, a gynandrous, wellness robot, and Silver Jack, a fallen gambling man driven by a lust for power and riches, meet at Thumper Bob’s robot mission, they are inexplicably attracted to each other. After Jack gets hold of a mysterious crystal believed to be a piece of a vampire star, Loofah acquires a healing touch to cure the robots of the dreaded robot plague. Jack, attempting to profit from Loofah’s healing powers, devises an elaborate scheme to win back his casino and become the Kingpin of the lunar city of New Bangkok. Loofah, however, is convinced the star must be set back on its true direction to fulfill the prophecies foretold in the Invisible Bible.
Published by Ninestar Press
Word Count: 8,000
Summary: In 1962, in the western jungle region of Belize, Father Carl, an American missionary priest was found lying dead on the floor of his study. People from the nearby village of San José were blamed but, strangely, no one was ever officially charged or found guilty. Since then the village has been known as, “the village that murdered the priest.” This is only one secret within a carefully guarded web of desire, envy and guilt which torment and isolate people in this village. Thirty years later, with the introduction of water and electricity, satellite TV and the completion of the Western Paved Road, the village is connected to the outside world: people collide and their secrets unravel, sometimes tragically. Secrets of Ishtabay takes you into a world of mysticism and antiquity and introduce you to a people who are suspended between an eroding past of ancient lost cities, half-forgotten myths and subsistence farming, and a hostile present of encroaching global economics, illicit drugs, artifact smuggling and civil wars.
Word Count: 80000
Summary: What if there were a place that nobody else knew about – a secret place – where everyone was queer?” That’s the question Guy, an elderly, lonely gay anthropologist asks Richard, his young psychiatrist, as he searches for his tolerable truth. During each session, Guy tells Richard a story in which he survives the sinking of a cargo ship and is washed ashore on an uncharted tropical island along side the ship’s first mate, Luca. There, the two young men discover a world counter to everything they have ever known – a complex society in which almost everyone is homosexual and sex is considered the most basic form of communication. In his naive, awkward way, Guy attempts to integrate himself and win the love of a local man but first he must undergo a brutal initiation ritual, endure a crazed shaman, and swim across shark-infested waters. Meanwhile, Luca, who is unable to accept his sexuality, becomes obsessed with being rescued and degenerates into drug dependency. When Luca attempts to steal a large stash of gold salvaged from an old Spanish galleon and leave the island, Guy is forced choose between staying with the man he loves, or saving the life of the man who saved his. For more than 40 years Guy has been consumed by his longing to return to the island and recapture what he believes he has left behind. Although enthralled by his tale, Richard must be constantly wary of Guy’s attempts to manipulate him and meddle in his personal life, threating to upend his own sense of truth, leaving him to question if there could really be such a society, or does it only exist within the fantasy of a lonely old gay man? Rich with legends inspired by ethnography, this is a story within a story; the two collide when the depth of Guy’s subterfuge is revealed.
